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The Seated Buddha from Gandhara is an early surviving statue of the Buddha discovered at the site of Jamal Garhi in ancient Gandhara in modern-day Pakistan, that dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD during the Kushan Empire. Statues of the "enlightened one" were not made until the 1st century CE.
Stupa drum panel showing the conception of the Buddha: Queen Maya dreams of a white elephant entering her right side, 100–300 AD, carved schist, Jamal Garhi, British Museum. Indo-Corinthian capital from Jamal Garhi. Jamal Garhi is a small town located 13 kilometers from Mardan at Katlang-Mardan road in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northern ...
Early Mahayana Buddhist triad. From left to right, a Kushan devotee, Maitreya, the Buddha, Avalokitesvara, and a Buddhist monk. 2nd–3rd century, Gandhara Evolution of the Butkara stupa. Because the region was at a cultural crossroads, the art of the Gandhāran Buddhists was a fusion of Greco-Roman, Iranian and Indian styles. [4]
Preaching Buddha may refer to: Seated Buddha from Gandhara, a 2nd- or 3rd-century Gandharan sculpture from Jamal Garhi, in modern-day Pakistan; Buddha Preaching his First Sermon, a 5th-century sculpture from Sarnath, India; Badulla Preaching Buddha, a 6th-century sculpture from Badulla, Sri Lanka
The first statues and busts of the Buddha were made in the region around Mathura or Gandhara in the second or third century CE. [4] [5] Many statues and busts exist where the Buddha and other bodhisattvas have a mustache. Seated Buddha, Gandhara, 1st–2nd century CE, Tokyo National Museum Buddha depicted with urna, gilt bronze, 14th century
The Greco-Buddhist art or Gandhara art is the artistic manifestation of Greco-Buddhism, a cultural syncretism between Ancient Greek art and Buddhism.It had mainly evolved in the ancient region of Gandhara, located in the northwestern fringe of the Indian subcontinent.
Mostly these show scenes from the life or earlier lives of the Buddha, but there are other secular scenes. [ 13 ] The pose is found for religious figures from Kushan art (1st to 4th century CE) from Gandhara and Mathura , [ 14 ] although at this period it is rare, with a larger number of seated Buddha images, many with crossed legs, a pose that ...
These statues of the standing Buddha however tend to display characteristic and attitudes more readily seen in the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara: the head of the Buddha is surrounded by a halo, the clothing covers both shoulders, the left hand hold the gown of the Buddha while the other hand form an Abbhiya mudra, and the folds in the clothing ...